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Author: UCATT news releases

Building Worker Winter 2016

UCATT members will be receiving copies of the latest edition of the Building Worker in the next few days. If members wish to read the latest edition online it is now available at...
Posted on 20/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

Jobs threatened at Dundee City Council if outsourcing goes ahead says UCATT

Around 380 employees at Dundee City Council could see their contracts taken over by private contractor Tayside Contracts, if the council outsources its building and maintenance work. The council has...
Posted on 19/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

Scottish Government to call in ACAS to Forth Crossing dispute

The Scottish Government will call in ACAS to audit the Queensferry construction site after UCATT revealed migrant labourers being paid well below recognised industry rates. SNP Economy Secretary,...
Posted on 19/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

Crossrail emails reveal untold worker abuses

Crossrail contractor shockingly admits in revealing emails to: Abuse of workforce to exhaustion levels Toilets 1 hour walk away- No basic facilities Targeting of employees who complain Sinister...
Posted on 19/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

UCATT says the Government’s auto-enrolment pension scheme has major flaws

Construction union UCATT is calling on the Government to address the damaging flaws in its much trumpeted auto-enrolment pension scheme, as part of a review announced this week. Currently, thousands...
Posted on 13/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

Crossrail protest

UCATT held a protest this morning outside of the Crossrail depot in Holborn.  The protest was agains the ongoing policies of the Costain led-ATC consortium. The company are refusing to pay...
Posted on 12/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

HSE figures reveal small sites are safety basket cases

The Chief Executives Report to the Health and Safety Executive Board meeting on the 7th December 2016, has highlighted the ongoing dangers for construction workers.   The HSE conducted 1840...
Posted on 09/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

UCATT Scotland welcomes MSP support for investigation into contractor pay malpractice on the Forth Bridge Crossing project

  Scottish Labour MSP, Neil Findlay, has moved quickly to challenge the Scottish Government over poverty-level wages being paid to southern European building workers on the Forth Crossing...
Posted on 06/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

Tarnished Forth road crossing needs pay audit to restore confidence

Construction union UCATT are calling on the Scottish Government to conduct an urgent independent pay audit for worker’s operating on the Forth Crossing in order to reassert confidence that workers...
Posted on 05/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

Tarnished Forth road crossing needs pay audit to restore confidence

Construction union UCATT are calling on the Scottish Government to conduct an urgent independent pay audit for worker’s operating on the Forth Crossing in order to reassert confidence that workers...
Posted on 05/12/2016Author UCATT news releasesCategories news releases

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